[MR] Fwd: site damage - a possible atonement

[Margaret Cochrane]

I'll respond because I'm sitting around in bed sick (AGAIN) and bored.

I know that in the eastern half of NC, not too terribly long ago (maybe 2 years) we did a very specific and intense demo for the scout troop leaders, specifically the parents and scoutmasters, where we were showing them some of what we do for the new Living History merit badge, and they fed us all lunch, and we talked about how what we do might apply to some other badges (sewing, for example, and bugle).  They fed us lunch, we had a few tents up and a fighting demo and lots of A&S, and so on.  This was more or less immediately prior to us using the White Oak boy scout preserve for some kingdom level event (a coronation, maybe?  dunno.)  It was a very good day.
If my stupid health problems would let me, I'd be thrilled to be able to go work on a clean-up day there (or wherever).  So would a lot of us.  

But if this park ranger was so upset that he was unable to give details and couldn't provide names or a contract or anything (did he contact the contract-holders with his concerns at the time?), I keep having this knee-jerk reaction that there is something else going on.  
We have more than a few Boy Scout/SCA crossovers in this area, and are long familiar with them, and they with us.  'Course, I'm stuck in bed with no outside contact at the moment, and a very low event count for the past 1.5 years, so I could easily have missed something.

-----Original Message-----
>From: jbrmm266 at aol.com
>Sent: Jun 11, 2007 11:09 AM
>To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
>Subject: [MR] Fwd:  site damage - a possible atonement
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>This is a switch . . . usually what happens is that I mean to send a message to an individual and erroneously send it to the list!  This was t'other way 'round.
>Donal
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>This may or may not do any good . . . 
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>Most Scout camps have days or weekends when volunteers, mostly Scouts themselves or parents or leaders, come in and do maintenance and upkeep on the facilities. In our area they call it "Beaver Day."
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>Even though you'd be atoning for what you may not have committed, if a crew of Scadians showed up and did some real work at one or two of these sessions, it may mollify the powers-that-be . . . 
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>Just a thought.
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>Your servant aye
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>Donal
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: beth roberts 
>To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
>Sent: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:45 am
>Subject: [MR] site damage
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>I spoke to the ranger at the Boy Scout camp in Stanly
>ounty, He did not give a lot of sites and no dates,
>nd  he clearly did not want to be pressed for
>pecifics and I did not want him put on the defensive,
>ut his wife told me that he is related to some of the
>ther rangers, so you have to know they get together
>nd talk. Now, I believe that some of this is
>xaggeration, but it doesn't matter now.  It only
>akes a small thing to become a big thing and all
>nyone has to do to refuse to rent to us is have the
>ERCEPTION that we are a lot of trouble.  Remember
>hat the typical consumer tells 8 people of a bad
>xperience and one person of a good experience.  In
>he future I will ask people to sign a letter that the
>ite was left clean and in order.  
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-Margaret
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Margaret Cochrane (quarterly sable and gules, two feathers fesswise argent)
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